The works
Subtitle: the industrial architecture of the United States
By: Betsy Hunter Bradley.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Architecture, Industrial -- United States
Description: In this study, Betsy Hunter Bradley sets forth the terms of the type of analysis that industrial architecture demands. She explores the rationale behind the pragmatic design and functional beauty of American factory buildings and "the works" complexes in which they often stand.

While tracing the important developments in industrial architecture over a one-hundred-year period, she demonstrates that as the United States became an industrialized nation, the goals pursued in industrial architecture remained straightforward and constant even as the means to achieve them changed.

Generously illustrated with historic views, The Works will be a valuable resource for historians, architects, and historic preservationists, as well as for anyone interested in industrial architecture generally.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-327) and index.